Calvin Carcass

I'm really glad Tom decided to give The Calvin Carcass series some due credit by showcasing it on the front page. I highly suggest checking it out, it's a classic for me since it's one of the first great movies I remember seeing here. It's from 2004 and just has this classic flash kind of feel to it, no photoshop frills and it's got great animation, plus it's just a hilarious concept to boot. Check it!

Worst Looking Person on Facebook

This has got to be the worst looking person on facebook(you have to be logged in to see).

At 7/14/08 12:53 AM, Treerung wrote: This has got to be the worst looking person on facebook(you have to be logged in to see).

All I see is my own Facebook picture. >_>

oh shit..
thats your profile?

=p

At 7/14/08 12:57 AM, Treerung wrote: oh shit..
thats your profile?

Uh, I sure hope not. I think the link corresponds to your own picture if you're logged in or something.

At 7/14/08 01:00 AM, Masterswordman wrote: Uh, I sure hope not. I think the link corresponds to your own picture if you're logged in or something.

Naw swords, I got you too? Wow, you're fucking disgusting...

At 7/14/08 12:37 AM, ConAir wrote: Calvin Carcass

I'm really glad Tom decided to give The Calvin Carcass series some due credit by showcasing it on the front page. I highly suggest checking it out, it's a classic for me since it's one of the first great movies I remember seeing here. It's from 2004 and just has this classic flash kind of feel to it, no photoshop frills and it's got great animation, plus it's just a hilarious concept to boot. Check it!

That was really well done and funny. It was cool to see his art style progress and become more refined through the episodes...I hope he does more.

At 7/14/08 12:56 AM, Masterswordman wrote: All I see is my own Facebook picture. >_>

Happened to me too, maybe just give us the link to his page?

At 7/14/08 01:07 AM, El-Presidente wrote: Naw swords, I got you too? Wow, you're fucking disgusting...

What the hell? I don't look that bad...do I?

Josh, that girl next to you makes me want to PUKE! And her stupid-ass top-hat, or whatever the hell it is. You. Make. Me. SICK.

At 7/14/08 01:15 AM, El-Presidente wrote: Josh, that girl next to you makes me want to PUKE! And her stupid-ass top-hat, or whatever the hell it is. You. Make. Me. SICK.

WHAAAAAAAAAT??? I swear Luis is behind this...

At 7/14/08 01:16 AM, Masterswordman wrote: WHAAAAAAAAAT??? I swear Luis is behind this...

Luis is behind you in the picture, thats what presidente is talkin bout

I love all of the calvin carcass movies... I even made the icon for that one (it didn't have one, that's how I came across it!)

At 7/14/08 01:44 AM, ReNaeNae wrote: I love all of the calvin carcass movies... I even made the icon for that one (it didn't have one, that's how I came across it!)

i just watched em all.. .what a great series.. its a shame it took so many years for it to surface

Need Advice on Programming Proyect

Well, I have my programming proyect due thursday, and being my last one, I have to "show off".

Me and a friend decided we'd make a robotic arm, Which is all going pretty good (considering the fact it took us ages getting all the pieces, and destroying a few non-working printers), thing is, I want it to WIN this competition. And for that, I was planning to make a flash ap that could control the arm (which will be connected to the LPT1 port, and i'm sending it to visual to work with it) and that's all good. Then I decided that it could give me tooons of extra points if I managed to make it work via LAN... well, All's good, I can send and receive text and vars through flash in a LAN, but i haven't bothered to re-do the whole program to send and load from the LAN.

But now, I want to expand. I mean, I recently bought my domain (www.dfblaze.com, btw) and said 'Hey, why not do it online?' Of course, the site for that is pass-protected... (arm-a-tron.dfblaze.com).

I had a few ideas on how to do this...

Hold an app for the client online, and one more offline for the server (which is the one that has the arm conected to it). The client one would work with fscommands to javascript, which would send those values (angles) to php and that php would write it in a database; data that i could then seek online using the "server app" for any updated data on the database and move according to that.

Sounds good so far... And actually do-able, but do you have any better ideas?

I mean, my programming teacher and the jury would completely DIE.

At 7/14/08 02:53 AM, Blaze wrote: Need Advice on Programming Proyect
I mean, my programming teacher and the jury would completely DIE.

Sounds like a pretty good way to do it, and like a pretty awesome project. You could write from the client side to your database using other methods besides the fscommand you mentioned, but whatever works works.

I never noticed really, but if you search enouph there's quite a number of trippy flashes on NG.
Example
I'm surprised their isn't a "Trippy Collection" or even a "Trippy" catogroy in the Drug collection.
Better example of trippy flash.

I don't know... I hear Tom likes his collections, but I don't think this is that much of a thing to care about or even mention.

Need Advice on Programming Proyect

Your way is probably good enough, though some guy was telling me about an Actionscript library that could write to SQL databases directly--haven't tried it myself.

Personally, I'm not sure that I would use the database as an intermediary... I'd probably have clients send directly to the machine connected to the arm via something like a socket connection. If the "Arm server" wanted to log to a database (maybe for display on the web, etc) it could do that as well. Right now the absence of a database would break everything, but really I think your way is still more than reasonable given the situation so I won't ramble on about it :p

At 7/14/08 04:21 AM, DougyTheFreshmaker wrote:

Need Advice on Programming Proyect

Your way is probably good enough, though some guy was telling me about an Actionscript library that could write to SQL databases directly--haven't tried it myself.

Personally, I'm not sure that I would use the database as an intermediary... I'd probably have clients send directly to the machine connected to the arm via something like a socket connection. If the "Arm server" wanted to log to a database (maybe for display on the web, etc) it could do that as well. Right now the absence of a database would break everything, but really I think your way is still more than reasonable given the situation so I won't ramble on about it :p

Well I actually thought about using XML sockets online, but it seems to be more difficult on little details than using it on LAN. So, I dont wanna go through more pain :P

I'll do some research on those libraries :D

And... thanks all :D

Who here would call me to say hi if I gave 'em my number?

Or would all of you bastards just prank call me? :P

RE: Flash scores

I see what you guys mean.

It's a good animation and all, but it's hardly God's gift to Newgrounds. You can still see plenty of lazy techniques, like having movements which the creator can't be bothered to animate occurring off-camera, and lingering too much on the parts which would have taken longer to draw.

Time was when something like that would be hovering just below a 4. Where are all the angry twelve year olds when you need them?

At 7/14/08 06:52 AM, Paranoia wrote: RE: Flash scores
Time was when something like that would be hovering just below a 4. Where are all the angry twelve year olds when you need them?

Where are all the people actually using the Review Feedback system like it should be - hell, at time of writing ALL those are useless reviews...

At 7/14/08 06:52 AM, Paranoia wrote: RE: Flash scores

Time was when something like that would be hovering just below a 4. Where are all the angry twelve year olds when you need them?

Well I don't agree. I believe that animatiion had alot of substance. Of course, not worthy of a 4.5+ but still 4-4.05 material. I too am wondering where all the 12 yr olds have gone... I think it has something to do with steam being on the verge of internet domination.

At 7/14/08 09:22 AM, Coolio-Niato wrote:

At 7/14/08 06:52 AM, Paranoia wrote: Time was when something like that would be hovering just below a 4. Where are all the angry twelve year olds when you need them?

Well I don't agree. I believe that animatiion had alot of substance. Of course, not worthy of a 4.5+ but still 4-4.05 material. I too am wondering where all the 12 yr olds have gone... I think it has something to do with steam being on the verge of internet domination.

You say just above a 4; I say just below a 4. Sounds like we're more or less in agreement to me :P

Re: Alts

My most well-known alt is BritishMoose.

Alts

lolwut?

At 7/14/08 11:34 AM, KaynSIamdyke wrote: Re: Alts

My most well-known alt is BritishMoose.

My most well-known alt is BritishMoose. =)

No. I'M ALTICUS! And I'll kick the alts out of all of you if you don't change the topic. :)

At 7/14/08 11:34 AM, KaynSIamdyke wrote: My most well-known alt is BritishMoose.

You. Off my planet. There is no place for you here evil clone! Begone anathema!

At 7/14/08 11:57 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 7/14/08 11:34 AM, KaynSIamdyke wrote: My most well-known alt is BritishMoose.

You. Off my planet. There is no place for you here evil clone! Begone anathema!

...that was... weird.

At 7/14/08 11:57 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: You. Off my planet. There is no place for you here evil clone! Begone anathema!

The only way to settle this is with a no holds barred race around the world!